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Customizing footnotes
If you want the current section’s footnotes to appear separately from the other footnotes in the
document, select the Collect at end of text option in the Footnotes area.
To number the current section’s footnotes separately from the other footnotes in the document,
follow these steps:
1) In the Footnotes area, make sure that the Collect at end of text option is selected.
2) Select the Restart numbering option.
3) If you want the section’s footnotes to start at a number other than 1, enter the desired
starting number in the Start at spin box.
To edit the format of the section’s footnotes, follow these steps:
1) In the Footnotes area, make sure that the Collect at end of text and Restart numbering
options are selected.
2) Select the Custom format option.
3) From the drop-down list under and to the right of the Custom format option, select a
numbering format for the footnotes.
4) To add text to the selected numbering format, use the Before and After fields. For example,
if you want the footnote numbers to be preceded by the word “Note” and followed by a
colon, fill the Before and After fields like this:
Figure 135: Numbering footnotes for sections
Customizing endnotes
If you want the current section’s endnotes to appear at the end of the section rather than at the
end of the document, select the Collect at end of section option in the Endnotes area.
To number the current section’s endnotes separately from the other endnotes in the document,
follow these steps:
1) In the Endnotes area, make sure that the Collect at end of section option is selected.
2) Select the Restart numbering option.
3) If you want the section’s endnotes to start at a number other than 1, enter the desired
starting number in the Start at spin box.
To edit the format of the section’s endnotes, follow these steps:
1) In the Endnotes area, make sure that the Collect at end of section and Restart
numbering options are selected.
2) Select the Custom format option.
3) From the drop-down list under and to the right of the Custom format option, select a
numbering format for the endnotes.
4) To add text to the selected numbering format, use the Before and After fields, as shown
above for footnotes (Figure 135).
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